What's to prevent companies from reprinting valuable cards years later???

[nebboy]

Remaking printing plates from a prepress ready electronic file is a simple, easy and cheap, it only takes less than an hour to run the C,M,Y,K and spot color plates needed.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by nebboy

Remaking printing plates from a prepress ready electronic file is a simple, easy and cheap, it only takes less than an hour to run the C,M,Y,K and spot color plates needed.

Yep, it would be pretty easy today.

Back in the day, the shop I worked for saved the masks for a few years just in case someone wanted more of a particular item. When the Hunts tried to corner the market in silver, I got to disassemble a few hundred so the film could get sent to the recycler.

Upper deck also got caught faking their own products. I think Yugioh cards. Someone bought a box of repacked cards at retail and complained that the rare card was fake. The yugioh people went to Treat (the repacker) and demanded to know where they'd gotten them, and the answer was "from Upper deck, the manufacturer" You'd think they'd do better, but they made the same sort of mistakes as most other fakers wrong cropping, different or no copyright notice, logos in the wrong spot.....